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Recent Highlights in Targeted Protein Degradation

Drug Hunter

In Wednesday’s Flash Talk webinar , we covered recent highlights in targeted protein degradation, with lots of great questions from the audience. KT-333 and KT-003) AR degraders and ER degraders from Arvinas (bavdegalutamide/ARV-110, ARV-766, and ARV-471) MDM2 degraders from Kymera (e.g.

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A covalent BTK ternary complex compatible with targeted protein degradation

Covalent Modifiers

Calabrese Nat Commun 14 , 1189, 2023 [link] Targeted protein degradation using heterobifunctional chimeras holds the potential to expand target space and grow the druggable proteome. Limiting this potential, however, is the remaining need to develop a ligand for the target of interest.

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Scientists generate new targeted protein degradation system that tunes a cell’s own proteins

Broad Institute

In one approach, they mark targeted proteins with “destroy me” tags that work with small molecules known as molecular glues to prompt the cell’s own protein-clearing machinery to gobble up the proteins. Liu is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and a professor at Harvard University.

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Discovery of a DCAF11-dependent cyanoacrylamide-containing covalent degrader of BET-proteins

Covalent Modifiers

Winter, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters , 2024 [link] Targeted protein degradation is mediated by small molecules that induce or stabilize proteinprotein interactions between targets and the ubiquitin–proteasome machinery. Gary Tin, Marko Cigler, Matthias Hinterndorfer, Kevin D.

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Targeted protein degradation: turning undruggable targets into druggable targets

Drug Target Review

TPD is a rapidly evolving therapeutic modality to degrade a disease-causing proteins, thereby eliminating their function specifically. 1 TPD is expected to challenge undruggable proteins, which are highly difficult to target by conventional small molecules. How does TPD work?

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Exploration of the Tunability of BRD4 Degradation by DCAF16 Trans-labelling Covalent Glues

Covalent Modifiers

Ebert, Nathanael Gray bioRxiv 2023 [link] Small molecules that can induce protein degradation by inducing proximity between a desired target and an E3 ligase have the potential to greatly expand the number of proteins that can be manipulated pharmacologically.

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Chemical Specification of E3 Ubiquitin Ligase Engagement by Cysteine-Reactive Chemistry

Covalent Modifiers

3c06622 Targeted protein degradation relies on small molecules that induce new proteinprotein interactions between targets and the cellular protein degradation machinery. Most of these small molecules feature specific ligands for ubiquitin ligases.